I admire Lincoln for the humanity he brought to the presidency.
I became interested in the subject when…
I was a teenager in the late 1970s. I was lucky that I had politically minded parents who wanted to visit Eastern Europe. I was sent to East Germany on a Scout trip in 1979 – perhaps they were trying to get rid of me! – and two years later to Leningrad, as it then was, in the Soviet Union. My abiding memory is of the big belching American-made trucks, supplied to the Russians during the Second World War. They were everywhere.
I’m lucky that my passion for history translated into a job in publishing, where over the past 30 years I’ve had the chance to work with amazing authors such as Max Hastings, James Barr, and John Nichol. They influenced me to become a writer.
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